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lily colins made emily in paris so she could hang out in france wear cool clothes and make out with a ridiculous number of hot french men and she’s not wrong about any of it

So this happened:

And then...

REDDIT JUST HAD TO BREAK OUT INTO SONG AND IT WAS SPECTACULAR.

Just had to share.

You’re welcome.

People love talking about being warriors of social justice. They condemn any country who’s against it. But somehow the activists always fail small countries. Countries who don’t have big economical value outside of their territory. Countries they don’t know much about.

Artsakh and  Armenia have been under attack since September 27th. It’s a continuation of the ethnic massacre started in 1915-1917. International media outlets have published only a few and very neutral articles about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Congressmen and congresswomen, UN, OSCE, goverments’ representatives have only “urged” the terrorist attacks to stop. Meanwhile countries like USA, Russia, Israel, Georgia make it possible for Azerbaijan and Turkey to get ammunition, which they use to target not only board soldiers ( born in 2000′s) but also innocent civilians. 

The internet community has been silent for the most part. Armenians and other supporters have made uproaring trends and have provided information and countless informative infographs so that the online community would be informed and would spread the word. But the coverage is still minimal. People refuse to join.

Artsakh is being attacked the same way as Palestine, Crimea, Lebanon. All small locations, counties that have been failed to be protected. Countries who fight every day to keep their indigenous people and lands alive. 

Why is the world silent? If the issue was about a nazi group attacking jews, the world would go apeshit. So what’s the difference? Why the favoritism? People still need help, be it jews or armenians or any other nation. 

Wildfires, dying fish and burning cathedrals get worldwide news coverage the first day. But people, actual people, are dying and no one bats an eye. 

Locally speaking, a trans person flees an abusive home and the gofundme post gets 5k notes (as it should). But countless people die because of their ethnicity and religious views and the posts about them never surpass 1k notes. 

Why is that? Please take a second to reevaluate your bias and actually recognize how much of your online activism is performative and how much of it is actually useful, unbiased, based purely on human rights. 

Settling the Aladdin discourse

Can all the misinformed Americans and Brits pipe down for a second? I’m rolling out the historical carpet from the perspective of someone who’s actually grown up in the Middle East and why none of this matters.

I heard Aladdin or as I knew it, as ‘The Magic Lamp of Alaa el-Din’. It is one of the most popular tales from the region, next to Sindbad, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and but guess what?

It’s a trainwreck of a tale, so is Disney’s adaptation. Why? Because it makes no sense, culturally or historically. Why? It’s not authentic. It’s not actually a real part of the stories Schehrezade/Shahrazad told to King Shahrayar in One Thousand and One Nights.

It was added in by a European translator, Antoine Galland, then later accepted as part of canon.

BRIEF HISTORY LESSON:

One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of folktales presented in a story-within-a-story context. King Shahrayar of Persia’s wife cheated on him, he then had her and her lover put to death, but her infidelity drove him mad with paranoia. He decided to marry every virgin in the kingdom them put her to death come morning so she wouldn’t have the chance to cheat on him.

Alas, he ran out of virgins, all except for his grand-vizier’s daughter Shahrazad. She agreed to marry the king, assuring her father she had a plan. After their wedding night, Shahrazad began the distraction plot to end all plots. She asked the king if he wanted to hear a story and spent the whole night entertaining him with it, making sure to end with the start of another tale. Once he’s ask “What happened?” she’d tell him, “Wait for tomorrow,” and restart the same process.

She kept him on the episodic hook for a thousand and one nights, spinning so many tales and retelling many until she finally ran out. But, by the time she did, they had developed a good relationship, had children, and he no longer cared about his kill-come-sunrise rule, and they lived happily ever after.

So, why is Aladdin a trainwreck? For starters, it’s set in CHINA. And China is for some reason ruled by a sultan. Sultans are the titles of Ottoman kings, as in Turks. Aladdin is recruited by a sorcerer/Jafar from the Maghreb, which is typically used to refer to Morocco (literally called El Maghreb in Arabic) or all of NA sans Egypt. The Princess is called Badroulbadour not Jasmine, and while she has an Old Arabic name ‘badr al badour / full moon of full moons’, she is described as being from the FAR EAST. She was never an Arab, neither was Aladdin!

Can you tell this was made up by a confused foreigner?

So, we have a Turkish king in China, Aladdin is Chinese, Jafar is Moroccan and Jasmine is Japanese. It’s the same in the Disney movie. The style of the characters and background in Disney’s Aladdin is unmistakably an Persian-Indian fusion with some Ottoman sprinkled in. The concept of a genie/djinni is literally the only Arab part of the tale.

1. Jasmine’s headpiece/tiara, appearance, and pet tiger point to Indian. But she wears harem pants/şalvar, which are Turkish (Indian version shalwar).

Actually, she’s a toned-down version of a belly-dancer. Belly dancing is practiced from Egypt to Lebanon to Persia and India, it was spread by the Ottomans.

2. The Sultan is styled like a merge between a Sikh maharajah (Indian) and a sultan (Turkish).

3. The magic carpet is also an Indian concept (Prince Husain, son of the Sultan of the Indies in OTaON retrieves a magic carpet from India.)

4. The sultan’s palace is based on the Taj Mahal

5. The Genie/djinni is the lone Arabic concept.

Here’s what lots of Westerners don’t get. All of these cultures have bled on one another. From the Maghreb to Egypt, to the Levant, to Turkey, to the Arabian Peninsula, to Iraq, to Persia and India we all share so many traits because of trade, history or, you guessed it, invasion. Cultural exchange is pretty common, I grew up with a lot of Persian stories, Indian products and Bollywood movies in theatres, leftover Turkish culture and food from Ottomans, Arab culture from prior invasions, interaction and language, and so, so many Lebanese pop stars.

It’s actually pretty smart to amass a cast from different parts of the Near, Middle and South East, so to include everyone who likely grew up with Shahrazad and her many, many tales.

If there’s anyone you should have a problem with, it’s Will Smith as the genie. It’s pretty transparent how you all ignored how this is the second time a black man plays the genie (first on Once Upon A Time) but sling hate at Naomi Scott for being Indian.

Oh, and Disney fucked up by blaring Arabian Nights at the start and end of the movie, because One Thousand and One Nights is NOT called Arabian Nights. It’s called Alf Leyla w Leyla - literally ‘A Thousand Nights and One’.

It’s a collection of Persian, Indian, Egyptian, Arabic, Mesopotamian and Jewish folklore that was compiled in Arabic.

Aladdin is being played by the Egyptian Mena Massoud, Jasmine is by the Indian Naomi Scott and the rest of the cultures involved should be cast.

Oh, and to all people saying Naomi is ‘too light’ and ‘half-whitewashing’. Take your racial purity and stick it up your nose. Middle Eastern, Indian and North African girls come in all shades, even if both sets of grandparents are native to the region.

PS. Avan Jogia is seriously out there saying him playing Aladdin would have ‘been wrong’ because ‘he should be Middle Eastern’ but he had no problem playing King Tut, who is EGYPTIAN? As in Middle Eastern??

Quit your virtue-signaling, Rami Malek is still the only Egyptian to ever play one in Western media.

Anyway, POINT MADE.

haha so...i just finished reading every fic in ur Lakehouse tag recs and I’m obsessed. Do u have any others, or a good way to locate them easily?

Thanks, glad you enjoyed them! Best way to find them would be one of these searches:

Peter Parker & Tony Stark + Morgan Stark + “cabin” + english (30 results)

Peter Parker & Tony Stark + Morgan Stark + “lake house” + english (42 results)

Me : i crave human interaction, love and friendship

Me : *opens ao3*

Me, 2-4 hours later : satisfaction

How famous city changed 

timelapse evolution before after

DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989, dir. Peter Weir) V FOR VENDETTA (2005, dir. James McTeigue)

sam wilson always adding a healthy dose of reality to the mcu

BROS

i need to say a thing 

i was reading The Catcher In the Rye during the same time as i first watched Dead Poets Society and drew the following parallels:

both take place during the 50s.

the parallels between Charlie and Holden are crazy

both were expelled from a fancy prep school in America 

rich parents

chaotically bisexual

didn’t quite flunk English 

had someone close to them pass away

smoke a whole lot

also

i can totally see Charlie doing whatever Holden did 

i can also totally see them becoming pals 

BECAUSE JUST IMAGINE IF they take place in the same universe, they could perhaps run into each other and bond over their trauma and smoke cigs and drink till they pass out. they would totally, 100% like each others company and be out there doing some illegal shit together. 

what i’m saying is, this is an amazing crossover that i would very much love to read, i wanna see these two interact in some way, that would be so cool, perhaps an alternate universe where they just fuck off together and become cowboys riding into the sunset or some shit idk i just want them to meet somehow

#her power

MBAV fic recommends masterpost

Most of these are from years ago and some are unfinished and left on a cliffhanger (just like the show hahaha)

Benny/Ethan: Just guys being guys, bros being bros, playing spin the bottle and being super uh, good bros: https://archiveofourown.org/works/337760

Cute cuddling, super fluff: http://archiveofourown.org/works/11326176

Benny and Ethan keep making out everywhere, no wonder they keep getting caught: http://archiveofourown.org/works/11313480

Benny and Ethan are finally cool enough to be at a highschool party! This is what they always wanted, right?: http://archiveofourown.org/works/8920516

A wicked snowstorm hits Whitechapel and knocks out the power, these two boys gotta find a way to stay warm: http://archiveofourown.org/works/4080553

Can you believe that Mbav never had a beach episode? If they did it’s probably be like this: http://archiveofourown.org/works/1267774

Sleeping beauty Benny: http://archiveofourown.org/works/734320

Another Sleeping beauty Benny: http://archiveofourown.org/works/1992834

More cute, cuddling boys (but this time with Sarah/Erica on the side): http://archiveofourown.org/works/712488

After knowing Ethan for years, Benny can confidently say, he can easily read Ethan based on his body language: http://archiveofourown.org/works/554162

It was just a normal day until Ethan gets a strange vision of him…. and Benny?: http://archiveofourown.org/works/4601229

The story of all three kisses Benny has ever scored (Ethan didn’t know of any of these, and one of them is especially… shocking to him): http://archiveofourown.org/works/481221

Ethan thinks that maybe, almost becoming a vampire has some… side effects: http://archiveofourown.org/works/1267612

!!!ANGST!!!ANGST!!!ANGST!!! Benny wakes up in a world where he doesn’t know Ethan: http://archiveofourown.org/works/337786

Benny’s having trouble with a particular art project and goes to Ethan for help: http://archiveofourown.org/works/337784

Trans!Ethan (no romantic ships, only platonic): http://archiveofourown.org/works/2472710/chapters/5484503

Title pretty much says it all: http://archiveofourown.org/works/337780

Ethan sees something he shouldn’t: http://archiveofourown.org/works/337778

(College/Future AU) Benny thinks about the last day that he spent with Ethan before Ethan went off to college, about how he never told Ethan how he felt, about the fork that they placed in the road: http://archiveofourown.org/works/4584396/chapters/10442298

!!!ANGST!!!ANGST!!!ANGST!!! The first time Benny is taken to his parents’ gave is when he was five: http://archiveofourown.org/works/337777

Ethan gets a vision that could ruin everything: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/7867550/1/That-Vision

The gang plays seven minutes in heaven: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/10967221/1/

Ethan plans to finally confess to Benny, but someone or something gets in the way: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/12347054/1/Fourteen-Reasons-Why-I-Fell-In-Love-With-Benny-Weir

Benny’s birthday!: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11680563/1/Benny-s-Birthday-Surprise

Ethan’s birthday!: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11386288/1/The-Best-Birthday-Ever

What happens after that classic video chat scene: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/7982354/1/Would-It-Be-That-Bad

Both boys decide they’re going to confess to eachother: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/7807605/1/Confession

There’s literally no Sarah/Erica fics that I can find and I take that as a personal threat. Anyway, these are all the ones I’ve read and that I recommend, there’s like 47 pages of mbav fanfiction on fanfiction.net so there’s probably some hidden gems in there. (I’m so sorry that this is so long)

American students, do you really enjoy studying northen-american literature? So far I've read "The Catcher in the Rye" and I'm almost done with "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and I honestly believe that american characters are much more relatable with the brazillian ones. I mean, I totally respect Machado de Assis and I recognize the importance of José de Alencar to our literature, but honestly, Holden Caulfield and Tom Sawyer are much more interesting than Brás Cubas and Iracema...

So today people in Brazil broke quarantine to support our president

They wished for a military intervention like the one we had in 1964 who created our second and longest dictatorship who lasted over 20 years with thousands of deaths confirmed by the conflicts and to this day, thousands of deaths have no explanation due its heavy censorship

They also asked for AI-5 (Institucional Acts in free translation) and it was the most brutal act by far

I don't really talk about my own life here, but I will give an example: my grandfather is 86 years old and he was 31 when the censorship started. He fought by the rights of the poor people and the workers who were losing their jobs due the dictatorship and the economic crisis that came with it. He was friends with various singers who were exiled just by expressing their fears and how displeased they were with the military government. My grandfather was arrested by the military government to be tortured, leaving my grandmother to take care of 4 children (including my mother) and a new baby on the way, who didn't make it due her stress

Please, PLEASE! Let's get together to end this craziness! If you're Brazilian and happens to read this, please reblog and maybe tell your own story about a family member or tell more about the dictatorship that happened

If you are not a Brazilian, please reblog this! Let's stop this nonsense

blackwatchandromeda’s fic rec list

so i’ve seen a lot of these going round, and in honor of fanfic appreciation day i’m going to jump on the bandwagon and share my fic rec list! these are the ones i always love to come back to. they’re all super talented and brilliant - check them out! in no particular order:

a river to skate away on by @frostysunflowers - the best memory loss fic out there, period. incredible writing and fantastic characterization!

turn back the clock (and i’ll try again in the morning) by @madasthesea - time loop plus identity reveal equals fanfiction gold. i have reread this an embarrassing amount of times: the angst is absolutely supreme, and the resolution is immensely satisfying!

alucinari by celluloid - a fantastic fic exploring the effect of ffh on peter. it’s a little dark, but incredibly well written!

runaway by spectra - irondad is upped to the max when peter runs away from home. it’s a cool concept, and executed brilliantly!

when in doubt just keep the faith by sparrowflight246 - this is one of my favorite biodad fics of all time. it’s supremely angsty, but the comfort is well worth it!

goner by @emkayohh / camelotqueen - peter goes after a serial killer in queens. one of the best kidnap fics out there, imo!

let’s kick it by @too-many-bees / civilbores - peter gets an alien disease and deals with it spectacularly badly. amazing hurt/comfort and a fab conclusion

it wasn’t you by @losingmymindtonight - i’m a sucker for fics like these, and this is a shining example. supremely good whump and recovery

the entirety of @tempestaurora‘s whumpvember series - there’s not much i can say that the series doesn’t say for itself: this is one of the best 30-day whump challenges i’ve ever read! each part has incredible effort put into it, and stands alone extremely well

i’ll always find you in the drift by @tempestaurora - this is a crossover with pacific rim, but even if you’re unfamiliar with it this fic is still a fantastic ride and deserves more attention. the characterization is perfect, and it’s filled with brilliant cameos

five times peter parker pretended to be asleep by @blondsak - all-around incredible 5+1 featuring the amazingly-characterized avengers, and great irondad! awesome blend of angst and humor

what if there is no tomorrow? by @iron–spider - it’s another time loop, but this time tony’s inside it. it’s a brilliant reworking of the groundhog day trope to fit mcu characters, and it keeps amazingly well to the original film’s tone

brooklyn by @hailing-stars - i’m usually not a fan of bad guy may stories, but this fic absolutely knocks it out of the park. it also carries a healthy dose of ironmom! (note: this is part six of a series, which is fantastic and sets up this story.)

don’t leave me now by @iron–spider - peter thinks he’s losing his powers, and it leads to a whole lot of fantastic hurt/comfort. one of my favorite fics!

i’m probably guaranteed to have forgotten a bunch of my other favorites on here, but i encourage you to read all these and give the authors some love! happy fanfic appreciation day. 💕

Conversation Prompt #66

Peter singing “The Best of Both Worlds” by Hannah Montana except he changes it up like

You get the Audi out front

All the trauma, all the death and destruction

Yeah, when you’re famous it can be kinda sad

It’s really you but only Ned discovers

In most ways you’re nothing like your friends

You’re making webs just like a spider

You get the worst of both worlds

Yeah, you turn to dust

Then watch Iron Man rust

You get the worst of both worlds

Mix it all together and you know that it’s the worst of both worlds

Tom Holland AU: You’re dating him

MASTERLIST

Being pregnant with Tom's child would include...

Finding out the very next day he left for his latest movie press tour

Panicking because you knew he’d be gone for at least five or six months

“Shit, what am I going to do?”

Telling your best friend first

“Shit Y/N, what are you going to do?”

“Why thank you for your help!”

Deciding not to tell him until he came home

Him worrying one day he called you because you were extra sensitive and missed him a lot

Your mom going to your scans and check-ups with you

“Congratulations, you’re having twins”

“WHAT THE F-”

Calling Tom like every two hours after knowing this

“Baby, when are you coming back?”

“I dunno, probably in like two months, why?”

“Oh… nothing, I just miss you so much!”

Crying everytime after hanging up

Except one time you didn’t

And Tom heard you sobbing your lungs out

And he got so worried he took the first flight home

He arrived late at night

Only to find you laying on your side on the couch, with a duvet, watching a movie and eating chocolate covered popcorn

“Y/N?”

Dropping the bowl

Looking at him with wide eyes

“Tom?”

“Yeah, it’s me baby, are you alright?”

You immediately standing up to run and hug him

Your five-month belly already showing under your pajamas

Running to his arms and him holding you, shocked, believing he was imagining things

But when you pulled away

And he saw you

He couldn’t believe his eyes

“Y/N what the fuck”

“…surprise?”

Him asking a LOT of questions

“How long have you known?”

“How far along are you?”

“Is it a boy or a girl?”

“TWINS?”

“Oh my I need to sit”

Showing him all the scan pictures you got

“Tom… are you crying?”

“No, I just, I got something in my eye it’s all”

Tom apologising for being absent for so long

And calling EVERYONE

“HAZ, I’M HAVING TWINS! Well, Y/N is, but, ya know what I mean…”

“Mom, guess what? We’re having twins!”

“Jacob, oh my goodness, I’m going to be a dad! TWINS!”

Him having to go back to work but promising he’d spend every minute with you as soon as the tour is over

But you offered him a different deal

And leaving with him for the rest of the tour

The whole cast of the movie taking care of you by Tom’s request

Especially Harrison

“Y/N why are you standing up you need to sit down here take my chair”

“I CAN’T SIT DOWN, HARRISON”

Going back home a month and half later

By then you were six and a half months pregnant

So, according to the doctor that left you like a month to prepare everything you needed

Tom refusing to let you carry anything heavy

Preparing and ensambling their nursery almost all by himself

You having to rest completely from the beginning of your seventh month

And just as the doctor predicted,

you went into early labor…

…a month and half early

“Tom, the babies are coming.”

Haha looks like someone's about to have the heart broken

i started "all the bright places” today *:･ﾟ✫ *

Otávio died at 27

Which OC died young?

If humans are 70% water and water isn’t alive then humans are always 70% dead inside.

YEAH BUT THIS ONE WILL BE DIFFERENT

me: i’ve got another idea for a fic

them: you literally have seven unfinished works

me:

canon: characters hate eachother, constantly compete, rude to eachother, have relationships with other people, show no signs of remotely liking each other

me: they’re in LOVE